Simone Jacob, the future Simone Veil, her mother and her sister Milou lived for several months in Auschwitz-Birkenau within “a few dozen metres” of what we are told was a factory for exterminating Jews
Yet they suspected NOTHING of the gigantic crime! The Auschwitz-Birkenau complex is considered to have been the largest “concentration and extermination camp” of the Third Reich. The Birkenau camp proper was, for its part, the biggest “extermination camp”, a term which, coined by the United States War Refugee Board in November 1944, was translated into German at…